On Thu July 22 2010 17:52:02 Dan Carpenter wrote:
> snprintf() returns the number of characters that would have been written
> (not counting the NUL character).  So we can't use it as the limiter to
> simple_read_from_buffer() without capping it first at sizeof(buf).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <erro...@gmail.com>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c index ebb9c23..4cccc29 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c
> @@ -239,6 +239,9 @@ static ssize_t read_file_beacon(struct file *file, char
> __user *user_buf, "TSF\t\t0x%016llx\tTU: %08x\n",
>               (unsigned long long)tsf, TSF_TO_TU(tsf));
> 
> +     if (len > sizeof(buf))
> +             len = sizeof(buf);
> +
>       return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, len);
>  }
> 
> @@ -334,6 +337,9 @@ static ssize_t read_file_debug(struct file *file, char
> __user *user_buf, sc->debug.level == dbg_info[i].level ? '+' : ' ',
>               dbg_info[i].level, dbg_info[i].desc);
> 
> +     if (len > sizeof(buf))
> +             len = sizeof(buf);
> +
>       return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, len);
>  }
> 
> @@ -433,6 +439,9 @@ static ssize_t read_file_antenna(struct file *file,
> char __user *user_buf, len += snprintf(buf+len, sizeof(buf)-len,
>                       "AR5K_PHY_ANT_SWITCH_TABLE_1\t0x%08x\n", v);
> 
> +     if (len > sizeof(buf))
> +             len = sizeof(buf);
> +
>       return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, len);
>  }
> 
> @@ -542,6 +551,9 @@ static ssize_t read_file_frameerrors(struct file *file,
> char __user *user_buf, len += snprintf(buf+len, sizeof(buf)-len, "[TX
> all\t%d]\n",
>                       st->tx_all_count);
> 
> +     if (len > sizeof(buf))
> +             len = sizeof(buf);
> +
>       return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, len);
>  }
> 
> @@ -681,6 +693,9 @@ static ssize_t read_file_ani(struct file *file, char
> __user *user_buf, ATH5K_ANI_CCK_TRIG_HIGH - (ATH5K_PHYERR_CNT_MAX -
>                       ath5k_hw_reg_read(sc->ah, AR5K_PHYERR_CNT2)));
> 
> +     if (len > sizeof(buf))
> +             len = sizeof(buf);
> +
>       return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, len);
>  }
> 
> @@ -766,6 +781,9 @@ static ssize_t read_file_queue(struct file *file, char
> __user *user_buf, len += snprintf(buf+len, sizeof(buf)-len, "  len: %d\n",
> n);
>       }
> 
> +     if (len > sizeof(buf))
> +             len = sizeof(buf);
> +
>       return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, len);
>  }

i think it would be better to make sure the buffer is always big enough to 
hold all the output (it's not very variable in length), but as a safety net 
this can't hurt.

Acked-by: Bruno Randolf <b...@einfach.org>
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